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Mainland developers are turning to tourism-related commercial projects as safer bets than residential developments, which are bearing the brunt of government measures to curb demand and price growth in the sector.

Municipal lawmakers and political advisers attending high-level provincial meetings at the weekend said they would call for the full disclosure of financial details from the costly World University Games in August.

Five years ago, Qingyanliu was an unknown village of about 1,000 farmers in a suburb of Yiwu, Zhejiang . Today it has become an important business area of the city with a population of 8,000 and more than 1,800 thriving online businesses.

Dozens of government cadres in Yiwu, Zhejiang, who were formerly thought to have been the victims of the mainland's most high-profile fraud, have now been revealed to be lenders who made fortunes from the scheme.

To heal wounds caused by a protest by up to 200 Africans in July, Guangzhou police are offering a two-month amnesty and talks with leaders of their community to resolve differences. On July 15, two Nigerians were injured after they tried to evade passport checks conducted by the police.

It's a scene that might take a little of the sparkle out of your festive season. In a vast factory building piled high with cartons and cardboard packaging, workers squat on small stools as they glue together the synthetic green branches of hundreds and hundreds of ornamental Christmas trees.

Police in Guizhou province shot dead a knife-wielding man who took a woman hostage on a city bus and then demanded guns and 1 million yuan (HK$1.13 million) in cash, a spokesman for the Guiyang police bureau said yesterday.

At least one person died and 35 others were injured in an explosion on Wednesday night in the Zhejiang city of Yiwu , best known as a trading hub for small, everyday items, state media reported yesterday.

According to Xinhua, Wang Puhong , a deputy director of the Yiwu Public Security Bureau, said the explosion was deliberate, but he ruled out a terror attack.

Li Sau-hung, a local industrialist knowledgeable about mainland-Hong Kong economic co-operation, has advocated following the 'Yiwu experience' in establishing an exhibition centre of mainland goods in Hong Kong. What is the Yiwu experience?

The early-morning sun crests the mountains, pulling pink clouds across a lemon sky. In a new riverbank park, there's not a soul to be seen. Outside a nearby hotel, however, day labourers throng the pavement, pushing bicycles that have paint rollers, shovels or sledgehammers strapped to the frames as crude advertisements of their trade.